Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tall, thin Candidate Russell harped on the 396,000,000 Federal dollars which have rolled into Georgia, assailed his opponent as a dictator who ruled the State by militia, described him as a pawn of Yankee capitalists plotting to break up the Democratic Party. Russell played for all it was worth the revelation before the Senate lobby investigating committee that John J. Raskob and Pierre S. du Pont had paid $5,000 each to finance Governor Talmadge's convention of anti-Roosevelt "Goober Democrats" at Macon last winter (TIME, April 27). "Sure, I helped raise the taxes," cried...
Your Art article [TIME, Aug. 10] about Harvard's model forest says that the leaves were "etched out of paper-thin sheets of copper picked up with a magnet...
...christening of the hero, Ben, born into a family of clergymen. The ceremony is marred when a poor, ugly, distant relative called Miserable Sarah breaks in on the good-hearted soft-headed assemblage with words of cruel wisdom. Groaning heavily, she tells Ben that he has a thin skin "and a thin skin is easy scratched and easy tickled...Play the fool when you come to something you don't understand...If you must play games, choose the one you're good at." Ben's parents are drowned and he is taken in by a pious uncle...
...Though the British and U. S. Press often accused Moody & Sankey of personally profiting by their work, most of the hymn royalties went into Moody's institutions. When he died of heart disease in 1899 his estate was worth $500. Sankey, whose voice had already grown old and thin, lingered nine years longer...
...life had been ruled by his syphilitic infection, so his death was occasioned by its ravages upon his heart and blood vessels." In Henry's daughter Queen Mary, "the evidence of congenital syphilis became, surely, all too plain. Her face was prematurely old and scarred, her hair thin and patchy; she had a 'square head,' with the forehead abnormally protruding." Queen Elizabeth, Henry's other daughter, "suffered a heritage of ill-health from her father . . . knew that she would never bear any children of her own." Queen Anne "was small in stature, and small women...